Firm News: Dec. 2014

The family of a former Navy shipfitter who died earlier this year of mesothelioma received a verdict of $20 million against a manufacturer of boilers that were insulated with asbestos, the law firm of Weitz & Luxenberg today announced. It took just two hours for a New York City jury to decide at the…

UPDATE: Weitz & Luxenberg is no longer accepting new clients for this lawsuit. Takata Corp. yesterday responded to Congress with a defiant “no” when lawmakers demanded a 50-state recall of the corporation’s defective airbags. But earlier, Weitz & Luxenberg responded to the Takata crisis with a barrage of new lawsuits over the economic losses caused…

Expanding news coverage of the cancer-spread risks posed by power morcellators is helping show why women are right to seek compensation from the makers of the surgical devices, Weitz & Luxenberg said. The most recent reports of injuries to women appeared in The Wall Street Journal, which in late November ran two major stories…